Combinable generic CBVs

When I use CBVs, I nearly always end up needing to mix different types in the same view, e.g. detail view and list view, list view and modelform view, etc. I really like CBVs but I feel this is the one shortcoming that I constantly run into that makes CBVs much less flexible and helpful than they could be.

Current CBVs don't have built-in support for this because instance variables and methods have the same name, e.g. self.model, self.object in both detail view and model form view, get_context_data in all CBVs, and so on. I think it would be very useful to modify CBVs to make them combinable by using different variable and method names and having separate unified methods that combine data from specific methods: you'd have self.detail_object, self.modelform_object, get_detail_context_data, and get_context_data would check if get_detail_context_data (and other methods) exist and get data from all of them and return combined into one dictionary.

It seems like it may be quite a bit of work, and I don't have much experience designing many levels of classes with Mixins, I'd like some advice on whether this is a good idea and how to implement it. Any suggestions / hints appreciated!

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